Dan’s Posterous

Dan’s Posterous

Dan Williams  //  Name: Dan Williams

Location: Guildford, Surrey, UK

Born and raised in Somerset, I am a Computing student at Plymouth University currently on a year's placement at Allianz in Guildford. I enjoy football, technology, film and really want to go travelling next summer!!

Feb 8 / 10:18am

John Terry: Need I Say Any More?

It pains me to comment on something that the News of the World has reported but Terry's outrageous behaviour has become my exception. John Terry has consistently been on the front and pack pages mostly for the wrong reasons but Sky Sports indirect praising of him made me so angry.  

I was watching Chelsea vs Arsenal on Sunday hoping for a decent game and I feel that is what I received with Drogba looking fantastic as ever. One element of the game that was sickening was the way in which the Sky Sports commentators treated Terry like the victim! They were constantly praising how he got on with his game even with all the stress he has on his shoulders and how professional he is on the pitch. They also for some reason kept a camera on him when Drogba scored his first goal showing how he wouldn't celebrate even though he assisted the goal because he was so depressed, Oh no poor John why does everyone keep picking on him?. This hero-worshipping of a horrible person who doesn't deserve his talent is disgusting and I think I need an explanation why some idiot in the crowd had a 'Team Terry' shirt draped over his Lonsdale jumpsuit, because I can't see anyway how he warrants sympathy.

Graeme Souness was as naive to say that he would receive a lot of stick or banter in the dressing room, I'm sure Wayne Bridge will be delighted to think he ex-team mates and I'm sure friends are having so much fun at his expense but I gave up on listening to him as he clearly knows nothing about football and would probably love to be in that dressing room contributing with unintelligible quips spewing from his mouth . 

In the great words of Kevin Keegan, I will love it, absolutely love it if Terry doesn't get selected for the World Cup and I think that is the only type of punishment that will hurt him.
Filed under  //  football  

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Jan 30 / 5:15am

iPad Review

As Steve Jobs said during his keynote, if you're going to create a third category of device, between the smartphone and the laptop, then it needs to be better than either for certain tasks. In many areas, this is true for the iPad -- web browsing is much better on the iPad than the iPhone, just because of the bigger screen, and physically flicking through photos, music and movies is just more enjoyable on the iPad than a laptop.

But in several crucial areas, the iPad falls short of the functionality that would have made this more than just a large iPod touch. The lack of Flash support is a major issue; the iPad's big screen is designed to make the best of multimedia content and the full-screen browsing experience, but the sight of little blue squares dotted around web pages where embedded video should have been just makes you feel like you're being short-changed.

The iPad's inability to multi-task could also severely hamper its appeal. It's being pitched as a portable device that you could kick back and use on the sofa at home, but you can't listen to your Spotify playlists at the same time as writing an email, or browse the web while using an instant-messaging app to chat with friends. It's one or other, just as it is on the iPhone and iPod touch, but for the extra money you're paying for the iPad, you expect something more akin to a laptop computing experience.

I think the inability to use multiple applications simultaneously is a massive flaw and can't believe that Apple haven't learned their lesson that people want to do different things at the same time!

Filed under  //  Apple   ipad  

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Jan 24 / 12:57pm

Breathe Carolina - I Have to go Return Some Video Tapes

My favourite song of the new Breathe Carolina album 'Hello Fascination' although all of the songs are fantastic!
Filed under  //  music  

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Jan 17 / 1:51pm

YouMeAtSix - Hard to Swallow

My favourite song from YouMeAtSix's new album 'Hold me Down'
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Jan 12 / 10:12am

Nexus One Advert

A nice little advert which sums up what the Nexus One has to offer.
Filed under  //  google   nexus one  

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Jan 6 / 9:04am

Guildford in the Snow

I was dying for a Krispie Kreme doughnut so ventured out in the snow and even though it is inconveniencing me a lot and Allianz didn't close for the day when it seems everyone else did.......... it did made everything look very nice :)

             
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Filed under  //  guildford   photos   snow  

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Dec 7 / 10:36am

30 Seconds to Mars feat. Kanye West - Hurricane

My favourite song from 30 Seconds to Mars new album. It really is a good album, for me one of the best to come out this year and definitely rivals the new Muse album. I believe the album came out today but was leaked on the Internet last last month, give it a listen!!

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Dec 6 / 1:24pm

Vitamin String Quartet - Smells Like Teen Spirit

An amazing cover, Vitamin String Quartet are fantastic!!

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Nov 19 / 4:32am

Google Chrome Extensions

I have loved Google Chrome since its release and I personally think more people should be using it considering one of the highest used browsers in Internet Explorer is a pile of garbage which should have been thrown out years a go. Unbelievably Chrome is only be used by 3% of the world's users so all users please preach and generally be as annoying as possible to get people using Chrome.

It is mentioned in the following article but I have also found that people's main resistance against Chrome's loveliness is Fantastic Mr. Firefox's huge amount of extensions which I agree are great and is a good reason rather than some I have come across…..

Well, good news everyone Chrome is soon to release official extensions for Twitter, Gmail, Facebook, etc which hopefully will turn some heads. For more information about getting access to the extensions early! Follow the link below to Mashable's article.

http://mashable.com/2009/11/18/social-media-chrome-addons/

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Nov 13 / 9:51am

2012

This film looks amazing and if it is anything like Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow it is surely going to be a winner. The only thing that worries me is that the best bits are in the trailer. Watch out for the helicopter carrying the giraffe, I actually had to go back and double-take... it made me lol

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